Mudron

Zoe: "Honey, you *deserve* to be buried next to Mr. Universe!"

Mal: "Hey, look! A drink-holder!"

The Iron Giant, bitches.

Gaz may not be necessarily coming back, as the voice actor for Gaz also supplied the voice over for the British Special Forces in the multiplayer mode (and will likely be doing the same again. This may be the first time that the VO in a multiplayer game makes canonical sense, if you imagine that it's Gaz's ghost telling everyone "We're losing this battle!" from beyond the grave.)

This coming from someone who thinks that Family Guy is fucking hilarious.

Is anyone else reading this as "F U Bi-Book" ?

You guys haven't seen cosplay until you've seen Lindze Merritt's stuff. (Image search her name + "Darkstalkers" and your head might explode):

http://www.cosplay.com/photo/921308/

Don't worry, I stopped shopping at Gamestop years ago when I realized that I was never going to be able to find a new copy of anything that hadn't already been gutted by an an employee.

Secondly (and this has been brought up several times in this thread alone), why does Gamestop need to gut all of their new games when they could just keep their pre-order display boxes on the shelves (or simply distribute printed box art that could be inserted into the empty cases already on store shelves) rather than gutting actual retail copies of the game? There is NO practical reason to gut new games, aside from letting employees "borrow" games as extra incentive to keep them from quitting their shitty jobs.

It still stands as simple fact that selling gutting games as "new" is an insulting policy that Gamestop continues to inexplicably foist upon it's customers - a policy that likely won't end until Gamestop collapses under the weight of it's own bullshit as it's consumer base begins to wholeheartedly embrace digital distribution.

These legal issues are stemming from the fact that it's Gamestop corporate policy to sell opened games as "new", which is allowing so many Gamestop employees to easily abuse this ridiculous policy. It blows my mind how many Gamestop employees are so brainwashed by their employer that they can't see why so many people are pissed off by this.

"work at GameStop, and all of the "New" games that are gutted on the wall are just that, new."

Pardon my french, but fuck you, buddy. Once an employee had laid hands on the game inside the box, that game isn't "new" anymore. You can swear up and down that no one has done anything with that disc but put it in a paper sleeve for safe-keeping, but customers shouldn't have to rely solely on an employee's word that what they're buying is actually an untouched piece of software.

When you go to the Apple store to buy an iPod, the iPods aren't all kept unboxed/loose in a drawer beneath the cash register, precisely because it looks SHADY AS SHIT WHEN EMPLOYEES ARE ALLOWED TO UNBOX FRESH INVENTORY AND SELL IT BACK TO THE CUSTOMER AS "NEW" - why in the hell should I expect any less when plopping down $60 for a brand-new piece of software at Gamestop?

Exactly. Gamestop regularly displays games on their shelves weeks/months before they're even released w/ dummy boxes - why in the hell do hey need to slice up every new copy of a game to display them when the game is actually released? In the very least, you could just print out new sleeves to put in empty cases for display rather than gutting your actual stock. So why then would Gamestop employees still want to gut the games? SO THEY CAN PLAY THEM. How Gamestop keeps duping people into coming into their stores when their entire business is little more than a dressed-up yard sale is beyond me.